Using math/rand to generate an int between a given min and max?

Kealper · 2012-05-25T21:54:48.222819+00:00

Sometimes the painfully obvious solution can be hard to see, even for somebody experienced. At least this happens to me rather frequently, but I'm not very smart anyway.

uriel · 2012-05-25T11:06:36.035757+00:00

? And it isn't, I don't see your point.

uriel · 1 day

What kinds of tools that make a difference at that scale aren't available for Go?

It seems to be working just fine for Google.

uriel · 1 day

Part of the point of Go is that is simple and lean enough not to need tooling.

All that "tooling" is just language smell.

uriel · 2 days

This debate was settled in the mid 90's and all serious languages that came out since then have supported exceptions.

Lots of stupid shit was 'settled' in the 90's, from XML to inheritance-based OO.

One of the things that makes Go great is that it reverses much of the braindamage that has become so pervasive over the last 20 years.

uriel · 2 days

In many languages things like null and true are not keywords either, so that they aren't keywords in Go is not all that special.

uriel · 2 days

That is one reason I love Go: gofmt or GTFO.

uriel · 2 days

Throws what? And you still have to catch the exception somewhere, so you don't really make anything more concise, you just move error handling to a further away place, and scattering 'throws' along your path.

Also just because you don't have exceptions doesn't mean error codes, those are two unrelated things (in python for example 'exceptions' were just strings for a long time).

uriel · 2 days

The most striking thing about Go code to me is that it's littered with error handling of the form

Is not more verbose than the exception-equivalent, and less fragile, because you handle the error closer to where it is generated.

uriel · 2 days

Go has the feature I most wanted in a new language: less features.

uriel · 2 days

48 down votes in <30 min, is quite impressive.

rauyran · 2 days

Seems that this post ended up in the spam filter, a post of the non-minified url is here.

corbet · 2 days

A name that happens to be wrong, as SQL was never one of MySQL's strong points. (Not that anyone has ever fully implemented the SQL standard, which is insane and beyond huge, but MySQL is particularly bad at this.)

For a long time MySQL implemented a very laughable and incompatible subset of SQL, it has got better, but is still pretty bad.

corbet · 2 days

Is there anything MySQL hasn't figured out how to fuck up?

tomtennn · 2 days

Shared libraries have got to be one of the worst ideas in the history of software.

tomtennn · 2 days

No, the correct answer is static linking.

andralex · 2 days

If you like C, try Go, if you (are insane enough to) like C++, try D.

You can read the Go spec in less than half an hour, and get a good grasp of the whole language in one afternoon.

I don't think anyone (other than andralex) even knows all the "features" in D, andralex's book was supposed to act as the "spec" for the language, but last I heard there is plenty of stuff in the book that is not implemented at all.

sublimepua · 2 days

They are even more painful if you use dynamic linking.

theringoffire · 3 days

The Node community has never cared much about facts.

theringoffire · 3 days

Which is how it ought to have been. Tcl is also a much nicer language than Ruby.

theringoffire · 3 days

Node is indeed a cancer. It has completely rotten the brains of almost a whole generation of programmers it seems. And I thought the RoR fad had been bad...

shenglong · 4 days

For example if your using an array, it's pretty normal that you will only be using around 9 or 10 methods,

Then why are they there hundreds if you are only supposed to use less than a dozen?

And you might not use the rest, but somebody will, and somebody will have to read the code written by people using the other methods.

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